Who occupied new mexico before the united states did? what was life like there?

A. SPAIN  

B. Life there was not easy based on the inhospitable weather conditions and New Mexico was isolated from other areas of the world. The area has original native Americas who build there houses in multistory form.

Explanation:

New Mexico is an area that has been having people of  Mogollon and the Anasazi living for some thousand years back. It also dominated by native Americans like the Pueblo.

Moreover, Spain was the country that have ruled New Mexico before the American in 1598. New Mexico has always been doing trade with Americans through the route of Santa fe tail line wish became the main route for during business.

The 1846 border dispute between Mexico and Texas  that resulted into the  Mexican-American war which the U.S won and resulted in the take over of New Mexico through treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

It must however be known that the New Mexico was admitted into the U.S as the 47th state in 1912.